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For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

Researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging. They found that the now-extinct molluscs sported hyponomes: tube-like syphons through which water ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks were well positioned to inherit oceans now cleared of competitors. Yet for ...

Ammonites are a group of fossil marine mollusk animals closely related to living cephalopods (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) and shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The ...

The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell. By Sabrina Imbler If anxious humans have nightmares of being naked in public, an anxious ...

Left: 3D reconstruction. Right: Labelled internal organs. Credit: Cherns et al. For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D ...